All Whisky reviews

The Eifelboys shared this cask with Vinotek Massen from Luxemburg. Luxemburg got 60 bottles, the Eifelboys kept 70. With good reason.The nose is fruity, but with a twist. Stewed fruits to be precise, but…

A Tomatin from my year of birth? Well, I must try this, surly. It came from a single cask, number 12267, bottled at cask strength with a nice dark colour. It was bottled in August 2007.Lift off! A fruit…

The Antiquary 12 Year Old is bottled in a rather odd and old looking bottle, but that is hardly relevant. It is produced by Tomatin and thus contains this single malt as signature. But also other High…

First vapor: Cherries with cinnamon honey.Nose: A milk chocolate Toblerone, with woody cinnamon and orange. A little time brings some vanilla peach syrup and floral notes. Palate: Sharply sweet honey…

I have recently been lucky enough to acquire a sample of Laphroaig Cairdeas 2012 Origin. And I thought what better way to taste it than to benchmark it back to back with the classic Laphroaig 10.So here…

Second part of my review, (part 1 being Laphroaig 10 to provide a benchmark).Looking forward to this - it will be a one-off experience of Cairdeas 2012 Origin :)Without water..On the nose at first I get…

An odd thing happened here. I had a bottle of this back some months ago and thought it was a decent whiskey. It's been some months so I bought a bottle of the Dark Horse again and this time - Yikes...My…

Cask #5160, sample from a friendBefore kicking this off with the usual notes, I thought that it was appropriate to say that I paid particular attention to the wood influence in it due to interest in and…

I found this Batch #3 bottle of Bowmore Tempest at a little mom-and-pop shop on the far south side of Chicago. I’m always on the lookout for liquor stores when driving through unfamiliar neighborhoods…

I’ve always wanted to try Amrut, but I hadn’t had a chance to until recently. The reviews for the standard single malt tend to suggest that it’s an average dram, but I won’t be dissuaded. I’m determined…